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Building a successful co-investment programme - Mark Boyle

Disruptive technology: it's coming but what does it mean for private equity?

There isn’t a single industry that isn’t - or won’t be - affected by the relentless march of technological innovation. What does disruption mean on a portfolio level, and how does it help generate returns?

Disruption. Innovation. Opportunity.

Prof. Juergen Schmidhuber blew minds as he explained of the implications of long short-term memory, and what will happen after singularity, the point at which machines overtake humans in intelligence.

More immediately, delegates learned about portfolio company digital transformation as a value creation tool, and finding opportunity in technological disruption as an investment theme. Plus a look at how fintech firms are disrupting the alternatives space.

Nimble. Disruptive. Opportunistic.

Bobby Vedral of Goldman Sachs, Mary Jordan of the Washington Post and Gordon Bajnai, former Prime Minister of Hungary kicked off the conference with in-depth discussion of geopolitical disruption and the rise of populist nationalism.

Then leading industry figures explained how they plan to navigate through this changing world order.

Turbocharge fundraising. Identify best practice.

The fundraising summit covered the need to know of fundraising with advice from fundraising superstars with decades of experience. And the speakers of the first-time fund and spin-out showcase gave their tips on being on the road for the first time.

With 350+ LPs travelling from all over the world, where better to kick start your fundraising efforts?